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Excerpt from The Powers at Play
HE came running down-stairs into the big, dimly lighted drawing-room, his card still in her hand.
It is Dr. Colburn, I see, she exclaimed delightedly. Let me congratulate you. Really, isn't it impressive! She swept downward and backward in mock ceremony, with eyes fixed demurely upon the gleaming card which announced to the world that Samuel W. Colburn had been made an M.D.
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